In one scene from the 130-minute movie, terrorists storm a police compound killing commandos. The Indian agents celebrate with a victory dance. The film's cheesy conspiracy theory prompted some prominent Pakistani journalists to tweet if it had been scripted by Zaid Hamid, a security analyst who spouts anti-India views on Pakistani channels.

Hamid tweeted his approval for the film: "The entire patriotic narrative that RAW is backing Khawarij, political traitors and terrorists in Pakistan has been depicted well. #WAAR."

Pakistanis have speculated that Waar was partly funded by the Inter Services Public Relations of the Pakistan army.

"I just found $2 million to cut from our military budget. #Waar," tweeted PPP leader Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.

(One of the film's two villains is a politician who resembles Bilawal's father, former President Asif Ali Zardari.)

The film received mixed response from critics.

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, whose documentary won the first-ever Oscar award for Pakistan, tweeted: "#waar has cliches but so do Indian movies v go 2 c- whether you like the film or not, watch it for the sake of supporting local talent."

The film's producer, Bilal Lashari, has denied any financial support from the Pakistan army.

In an interview to The Tribune, the film's action director and writer, Dr Hassan Rana, said Major General Asim Bajwa, the director general, ISPR, had only helped in background research on the film.

"He helped us understand the battlefield psychology of the soldiers and the enemy," Rana says of Major General Bajwa, who recently commanded an infantry division in Waziristan.